Ripon, Wisconsin

Ripon population, 2020 to 2024

Ripon lost 137 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.7%. In the latest year it moved by -16. Among 157 Wisconsin places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 141st; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wisconsin has 12,527 people, so Ripon is 62% of it.

Ripon covers 5.05 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,528 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Ripon is close to the typical town.

What county Ripon is in

All of Ripon's residents live in Fond du Lac County, which had 104,269 residents in 2024. Ripon holds 7.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ripon

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ripon by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 54971. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Ripon is

The Census internal point of Ripon is at 43.843600, -88.837900. Madison, the capital, is 59.8 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Waupun, WI (11,131 people), 15.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Madison, WI, 60.1 miles away.

Daylight in Ripon

At 43.84° N, Ripon gets about 15 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ripon

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Green Lake, 5.9 miles away, with 1,043 people.